The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 19, sentence 134
And you choose that time for grazing?” said the young mule.
Who acts: you · What happens: choose, say · To what, where: young mule · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 choose | cc |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 choose | nsubj |
| 3 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 choose | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 grazing | case |
| 7 | grazing | grazing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 time | nmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 choose | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 choose | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mule | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 mule | amod |
| 13 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose | present | you | time | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the young mule | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 236 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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